Cycling

Armstrong rejects French offer of 1999 sample re-test

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:54:00 +0000

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has dismissed as irrelevant an offer by an anti-doping authority to test his urine samples from the 1999 race.

Armstrong comes back with an agenda

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:02:00 +0000

Has there ever been a comeback quite like the one Lance Armstrong officially began on Wednesday in the company of world leaders and fellow celebrity activists Bono and Al Gore?

Armstrong plans 2009 Tour de France return

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:09:00 +0000

Lance Armstrong, the seven-times Tour de France winner, yesterday said that he intends to make a second comeback to professional cycling and that he hopes to win an eighth Tour de France next year at the age of 37.

Working Together, a Young Team Climbs to the Top

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:14:00 +0000

ST.-ÉTIENNE, France — Bob Stapleton brought his cycling team to the Tour de France with a new name, new uniforms, a new sponsor and a heralded drug-testing policy. He also brought the youngest team in the race. That left him, as he said at the start, hoping for perhaps a couple of stage wins and a top-10 finish by one of his riders.

Conquering key mountain, Carlos Sastre climbs in Tour de France lead

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:29:00 +0000

L'ALPE-D'HUEZ, France: Carlos Sastre, who at one point during the stage Wednesday was fetching water bottles for Frank Schleck, his teammate and the race leader, ended the day taking the yellow jersey off his teammate's shoulders and taking a giant step toward his first grand tour victory.

Mountains take their toll in the Tour de France

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:31:00 +0000

JAUSIERS, France: The Tour de France cannot be won in one day, the saying goes, but it can be lost.

In Alps, the 'real' Tour de France to begin

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:26:00 +0000

CUNEO, Italy: One day after taking the yellow jersey off the back of Cadel Evans on the tough uphill finish to Prato Nevoso, the CSC-Saxo Bank team promised that the war is not over.

Mark Cavendish turns his thoughts to Beijing

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:12:00 +0000

As the riders in the Tour de France peloton slalomed their way through the storm-lashed Italian Alps yesterday, Mark Cavendish was preparing to return to the Isle of Man for a week's rest before turning his attention to the Beijing Olympics.

Sprint king Mark Cavendish strikes again

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:22:00 +0000

Mark Cavendish demonstrated once again that he is the fastest sprinter in world cycling with a record-breaking third stage win in the Tour de France in Narbonne yesterday.

Tour 'winning war against doping'

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:22:00 +0000

Tour de France organisers believe Italian Riccardo Ricco's failed test proves that cycling is winning the battle against doping.

Arvesen wins one for the team

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:52:00 +0000

FOIX, France: On paper, CSC-Saxo Bank seemed to be the strongest team in the 95th Tour de France, leading the team classification and with two riders in the top 10 of the overall individual competition.

Cadel Evans climbs his way to a comeback

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:34:00 +0000

ARGELÈS-GAZOST, France: When Cadel Evans crashed halfway through the first stage in the Pyrenees on Sunday, cracking his helmet and ripping open in several places his jersey, shorts and skin, he thought his Tour de France was over.

Ricco Wins Ninth Stage of Tour de France

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:30:00 +0000

BAGNÈRES-DE-BIGORRE, France — The first two steep climbs in the Pyrenees essentially ended in a draw Sunday while Cadel Evans, a race favorite, had a fearsome fall that apparently did not seriously injure him but did crack his helmet and shred parts of his uniform.

Cavendish sprints to second Tour stage victory

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:46:00 +0000

Mark Cavendish has become the first double stage winner of this year's Tour de France, and the first British winner of two stages in a single Tour since Barry Hoban in 1973. In doing so he proved, beyond any doubt, that he is the fastest finisher in the race, with a 100 per cent record in the stages that have ended in a bunch sprint.

In a daring descent, Sánchez wins a stage

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 08:29:00 +0000

AURILLAC, France: With fog encasing the mountaintops of the Massif Central and rain making slick the newly paved descents, it would have to be a brave soul who attempted to get away from the pack during a downhill stretch of the Friday stage of the Tour de France.

Fate frowns on Stefan Schumacher as Tour's yellow jersey passes to Kim Kirchen

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:34:00 +0000

SUPER-BESSE, France: The yellow jersey is never safe at the Tour de France, not even one kilometer from the finish.

Cavendish claims maiden stage win

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:31:00 +0000

Britain's Mark Cavendish claimed his first Tour de France stage victory after a thrilling sprint finish.

Failed Test Trails Rider As He Races Into Lead

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:37:00 +0000

CHOLET, France — Stefan Schumacher came to the Tour de France with goals similar to those of many riders. “A stage win and a day wearing the yellow jersey would be fine,” Schumacher said earlier this year.